Event

Colloquium: Ethan Zuckerman, "How Wide a Web"

LocationE14-633 DescriptionThe internet enables unprecedented connections across international borders. Whether we read a daily newspaper f…

Monday
November 29, 2010
Person

Ethan Zuckerman

Former Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences; Former Director, Center for Civic Media

Event

Ethan Zuckerman @ BIF10

LocationBusiness Innovation Factory, Providence, RI Description

Wednesday — Thursday
September 17, 2014 —
September 18, 2014
Event

Ethan Zuckerman and Esra'a Al Shafei

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionJoin us for a conversation with human rights activist Esra'a Al Shafei and Ethan Zuckerman, Direc…

Tuesday
December 6, 2016
Post

Meet the Labbers: Ethan Zuckerman

"Making media and putting it out in the world is a really powerful way of engaging with social change."

Event

Joi Ito and Ethan Zuckerman Talk @ Media Lab

LocationMIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium DescriptionThis talk will be live webcast Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab and Ethan Zuckerma…

Thursday
September 12, 2013
Person

Oren Zuckerman

Former Research Assistant

Person

Ethan Alley

Former Research Assistant

Publication

The World Wide Web in an Analog Patchbay

Haddad, D. D., & Paradiso, J. A. (2019). The World Wide Web in an Analog Patchbay. In NIME (pp. 407-410).

Post

Ethan Zuckerman Appointed Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences

Ethan Zuckerman, director of the MIT Center for Civic Media, has been appointed Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Scienc

Article

Ethan Zuckerman Receives Zócalo Book Prize

Article

Ethan Zuckerman Receives a 2016 MIT MLK Leadership Award

Article

Ethan Zuckerman Appointed Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences

Article

Ethan Zuckerman, Cyberscholar and Activist, to Lead Center for Civic Media

Project

Virtual Fashion: Cultural Dispersion on the World Wide Web

In the real world, people clothe themselves in garments whose cut and design encodes information about the social identity of the wearer. T…

Publication

Redefine the Standard: Design for the Transforming World Wide Web

Okamoto, T. "Redefine the Standard: Design for the Transforming World Wide Web"

Article

"We’ve lost 10 years of innovation. This decade has been boring for the web."

A conversation with Ethan Zuckerman, media scholar and inventor of the pop-up ad, on the original sin of advertising and the web’s lost deca

Article

What did people use before Google to search the web?

Among other experts, Ethan Zuckerman reminisces about human-curated web directories and the mule-powered web browser.

Event

Colloquium: Tim Wu

LocationE14-525 DescriptionTim Wu will talk about his new book, The Master Switch, and more generally about the cycles in innovation and in…

Thursday
February 24, 2011
Event

Colloquium: Ken Perlin

LocationE14-633 DescriptionProfessor Perlin will present recent research in procedural modeling, responsive animation, pressure-sensitive i…

Monday
May 17, 2010
Event

Colloquium with Behrokh Khoshnevis

LocationWiesner Room DescriptionThe nature of construction has remained intensely manual throughout recorded history. Unlike in manufactur…

Monday
January 26, 2009
Event

Colloquium with Jeremy Bailenson

LocationWiesner Room DescriptionJeremy Bailenson is founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab and an assista…

Monday
April 13, 2009
Event

Colloquium with Bart Hopkin

LocationWiesner Room DescriptionBart Hopkin will talk about musical instruments and sound, with the following question as a starting point:…

Monday
December 8, 2008
Event

Colloquium: Eric Von Hippel

LocationWiesner Room DescriptionCorporations have well-refined methods of product development, brand development, management, production, a…

Monday
March 16, 2009
Event

Ed Boyden @ SMArchS Colloquium 2013

Location3-133 DescriptionProfessor at the MIT Media Lab, joint Professor at the MIT Department of Biological Engineering and the MIT Depart…

Friday
September 27, 2013
Event

Deb Roy @ URI Honors Colloquium

LocationEdwards Auditorium, URI Kingston Campus Description

Wednesday — Tuesday
November 9, 2011 —
November 8, 2011
Event

Colloquium: Joachim Sauter, "The Renaissance of Space"

LocationE14-633 DescriptionFor the last two decades the Internet has served information and entertainment to the isolated computer screen a…

Monday
April 5, 2010
Event

Agencies at the Interface: Colloquium with Lucy Suchman

LocationWiesner Room DescriptionThis talk considers how capacities for action are currently figured at the human–machine interface, and how…

Monday
May 11, 2009
Event

Joi Ito @ Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium

LocationStanford University Description

Wednesday
March 7, 2012
Event

Colloquium: Hojun Song, "Open-Source Satellite Initiative"

LocationE14-633 DescriptionSo far, almost all space programs have been led by governments, usually as part of their military programs. Very…

Monday
May 3, 2010
Person

Deborah Widener

Former Member Relations Manager

Event

Danielle Wood Speaks at CalTech's GALCIT Virtual Colloquium

Danielle Wood presents on "Sustainability on Earth and in Space" at the Colloquium Series hosted by GALCIT, CalTech's Aerospace Department.

Friday
February 26, 2021
6:00pm ET
Event

Ramesh Raskar @ UC Berkeley Joint Colloquium Distinguished Lecture Series

LocationUC Berkeley, 306 Soda Hall (HP Auditorium) Description

Wednesday — Thursday
September 21, 2011 —
September 22, 2011
Event

Ramesh Srinivasan— "Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Reshapes Our World"

Join Ramesh Srinavasan for an evening of discussion surrounding "Whose Global Village?" Q&A to follow, moderated by Ethan Zuckerman.

Person

Jeff Howe

Former Visiting Scholar

Event

Danielle Wood Presents at Clark University's Graduate School of Geography Fall Colloquium Series

Professor Danielle Wood will present on the research of the Space Enabled research group as part of Clark University's Fall 2020 Colloquium…

Thursday
October 1, 2020
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
Publication

Webbed Footnotes: Collaborative Annotation on the Web

Golder, S. "Webbed Footnotes: Collaborative Annotation on the Web"

Person

Mark Weber

Former Graduate Researcher

Article

How Internet Connects Us, Gift of Failure, Meet the Producers

Person

Ramon Weber

Former Research Assistant

Article

How Breaking the Rules Could Win You $250,000

Interview with Joi Ito about the first-ever Disobedience Award

Person

Matt Weber

Former Research Assistant

Article

Ito, Zuckerman on Foreign Policy's List of Top 100 Global Thinkers

Event

MLTalks: How Data Killed Facts

MLTalks: Jill Lepore, hosted by Andrew Lippman

Tuesday
April 24, 2018
3:00pm — 4:30pm ET
Publication

Why When and How Much to Entertain Consumers in Advertisements? A Web-based Facial Tracking Field Study

Thales Teixeira, Rosalind Picard, Rana el Kaliouby

Person

Penelope Eugenia Webb

Former Research Assistant

Project

Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI

Participate in the experiment at https://detectfakes.kellogg.northwestern.eduCheck out our publications in PNAS, a workshop at IJCAI, …

Publication

Remix culture on the web: A survey of content reuse on different user-generated content websites

Oshani Seneviratne, Andrés Monroy-Hernandez

Project

Webbed Footnotes

Webbed Footnotes is a Web annotation system that enables users to have a discussion about, around, and within the space of a Web page. Webb…

Group

Center for Civic Media

The MIT Media Lab’s Center for Civic Media is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that were …

Project

Decentralized Web

Between 1989 and 2015, the World Wide Web transformed from an esoteric system for publishing technical notes to a basic infrastructure of c…

Article

Spreading kindness far and wide

Bettina Arkhurst comes from a large, tight-knit family. Her relatives hail from across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, and Ghana. They…

Project

Gobo

Your social media. Your rules.Gobo is an experiment, not a startup. We’re building it to change the conversation on social media and imagin…